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As part of my new job, I got a shiny new 13″ MacBook Pro. Even though I’m quite a Linux fanboy, I really enjoy the quality of the hardware and OS X. However, it isn’t perfect. There are a lot of applications that I like to have available. Since I have nothing better to talk about, I figured I’d list them here:

Adium — one of the best instant messenger clients I’ve ever used. It has support for just about every major IM protocol except…

Skype — I don’t really use it for IM, but it’s great for audio and video calls.

Firefox — I prefer it to the Safari browser that ships with OS X. It happens. And with that comes…

Xmarks — a browser plug-in that syncs bookmarks. It comes in very handy when you use multiple computers. So does…

Dropbox — allows you to synchronize arbitrary files between multiple computers. I mostly use it for configuration files (e.g. .bashrc, .screenrc)

VirtualBox — sometimes you actually need to use another OS to do some important task (like play Sim City)